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Vladimir Nabokov
“Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!”
Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The only things you learn are the things you tame”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Lionel Shriver
“He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Elizabeth Kostova
“What did I know about the horrors of the past? Did they leak into rooms like mist, under doors? Or shatter windows and burst directly into one's presence?”
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

Susan  Rowland
“   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

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